Destino
El amor sucede,
está predestinado.
El verde de sus hojas
brota por la ciudad
Los conejos de Pascua
llevan la alegría en sus patas,
y en el trígono exacto
dos moléculas se encuentran
y explota el amor.
Destiny
Love happens,
it is predestined.
The leaves’ green
sprouts in the city
Easter rabbits carry
happiness in their feet,
and in the exact triangle
two molecules meet,
love explodes.
Desalojo
De repente, me provoca, encender un cigarrillo
y apagártelo en la punta de la nariz
Voy a dar una vuelta y cuando regrese
no quiero encontrarte en mi corazón.
Sweeping Out
Suddenly, I am tempted to light a cigarette
and put it out on the point of your nose.
I am going for a walk and when I come back
I don’t want to find you in my heart.
Estrellas
Cuando tú sonríes todas las estrellas
vienen a ver quién causó tal conmoción
en el universo.
Stars
When you smile all the stars
come to see what caused
such a stir in the universe.
Mirar el sol
Hoy es
el “Gran Eclipse Americano”
la Nasa, advierte
no observar el sol
Yo solo quiero mirar
tus ojos.
Look at the Sun
Today is
the Great American Eclipse.
NASA warns us
not to look at the sun.
I only want to stare
at your eyes.
Indran Amirthanayagam writes poetry in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole. He is the author of twenty five books of poetry and poetry in translation, including Seer (Hanging Loose Press, 2024), The Runner's Almanac (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024), Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia, Blue Window (Dialogos Books) The Migrant States (Hanging Loose Press 2020),Coconuts on Mars (Paperwall, 2019), Uncivil War (Mawenzi House (formerly TSAR), Canada, 2013), and the Paterson Prize-winning The Elephants of Reckoning (Hanging Loose, 1993). Amirthanayagam is a 2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts fellow in poetry, and a past fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts, the US/Mexico Fund for Culture, and the MacDowell Colony. He publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions (www.beltwayeditions.com), edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly; curates the reading series Poetry at Beltway Editions, He serves on the Board of DC-ALT. His blog is http://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com
Natacha Féliz Franco is a journalist, cultural facilitator and author of the poetry collection “Detrás de octubre” and the book of microfiction “9 caminos al cielo”. She is from the Dominican Republic